Namibia To Get Some Self-rule

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Pieter W. Botha travels to South West Africa Monday, again to grant limited self-rule to the embattled area also known as Namibia.

But, with the Swapo rebel organization excluded from the deal, it does not have the Western support crucial to any such plan.

A similar interim government collapsed after four years in January 1983 when an elected national assembly resigned in protest because South Africa repeatedly vetoed its attempts to dismantle apartheid-style race laws.

The United Nations, the United States, Britain and the European Economic Community have already condemned South Africa`s new plan as a setback for United Nations efforts to wrest the mineral-rich desert land from 70 years of South African administration.

The ceremonial installation of the ``transitional government of national unity`` in the capital, Windhoek, will transfer extensive powers to an appointed government of local political leaders in the former German colony.